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how to make size of banner adv. smaller ?
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| most people know what free internet is and it has a banner adv. anyone knows how to make the adv. smaller ? may be it has something to do with the registry? which entry needs to be changed in the registry? anyone has any idea???
Please help.
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| Randy 2001-05-09, 10:46 am |
| The way to remove the banner is to pay for the service. You get free Internet by viewing the banners. That's how the ISP's can afford to give you free access. | |
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| thank you for your input. i just ask how to make it smaller not to remove it. i am afraid i have to wait for someone who knows it to reply. | |
| ccieToBe 2001-05-09, 11:36 am |
| Making the ad smaller would have the effect of making it less effective too. If you take a look at the terms of service, there are probably some lines in their forbiding users from modifying the software. | |
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| please dont get me wrong. i am not using it. just treat this as a technical topic. | |
| chunder 2001-05-09, 3:03 pm |
| i have never used a free internet thingy but would assume (given the understanding that they all use some sort of proprietary software) that it's coded into their product/software. so, get out your hex editor and start searching...
(i really don't know, i don't know how to edit hex and can't crack but doubt they'd leave it so vulnerable in the registry.)
p.s. what's yer avatar? it looks almost nasty to me... | |
| imran1430 2001-05-10, 12:12 am |
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Originally posted by EP-3
thank you for your input. i just ask how to make it smaller not to remove it. i am afraid i have to wait for someone who knows it to reply.
It has nothing to do with the registry. you either have the banner or you dont.
...but you can minnimize it to an extent.
I know that in Netzero, you click on the little tiny question mark on the banner(right next to the x button) and you will see a little menu come out. Inside the menu, there is an option to show little tiny incons instead of big words.
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| imran1430 2001-05-10, 12:14 am |
| http://www.netzero.com/img_newsletter/zp3.gif
do you see the little ? mark at the upper right hand corner? thats what you click on so that all the words on the right and left become little icons. You can also disable the ticker and that will reduce the overall size of the banner. | |
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| thanks all people above for their input. let me explain more about what i want to do to the banner ads when connecting to an isp. i want to find a way to make the banner ad smaller other than the obvious means like using the ? mark or disabling ticker suggested above.
the reason why i consider it has something to do with the registry is that since a windows registry stores configuration settings for a PC whether it is h/w or s/w, so i expect the size of the banner ads is stored there as well. I could be wrong on this. That is why i post this message.
please dont get me wrong that i try to do something bad. i just am curious to know if it can be done.
someone mentions my avatar. that is me and if you feel nasty about that, you are not alone. many others feel the same as you do.
i feel nasty myself too and you know why.
please do help me though. i have done some research on this the whole afternoon but it remains unsolved. talk to your co-workers and friends to see if they know.
Thank you all. | |
| imran1430 2001-05-10, 8:36 am |
| Im not even sure what you are talking about! | |
| Watchdog 2001-05-10, 9:00 am |
| EP-3,
I never thought about resizing the banner when I coded work-arounds for FISP.
If I wanted to resize a FISP banner programmatically, the first thing I would do is get the handle of the banner window using FindWindow.
HWND FindWindow(
LPCTSTR lpClassName, // class name
LPCTSTR lpWindowName // window name
);
After getting the banner window handle, I would use MoveWindow to resize the banner.
BOOL MoveWindow(
HWND hWnd, // handle to window
int X, // horizontal position
int Y, // vertical position
int nWidth, // width
int nHeight, // height
BOOL bRepaint // repaint flag
);
After resizing the banner I need to find out how often the FISP updates their banner back to it normal size. This will determine how often I need to run my banner resizing procedure. Or I can just monitor the message queue for a WM_SIZE message for the banner window, then run my banner resizing procedure.
Hope that helps,
Watchdog |
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